A bunch of the secondary characters were pretty bad too. The pedophile? Mickey from Seinfeld and his cronies?
Of all the movies that I have mostly enjoyed, the Watchman had the most stuff that I thought was outright pretty crappy, and that does have a lot to do with the secondary performances and a general matter of tone. It just kinda worked out so that most of the crappy bits somehow didn't really affect the parts I
did care about, namely Doctor Manhattan and the Comedian. I also really liked Rorschach, despite his heavy involvement in some of the scenes I just plain didn't care for (Pretty much everything to do with the prison.) Basically, I like the character and Haley and the costume designers did as good of a job with him as I could have asked for, so the good somehow more than than cancels out the bad, in mind. It's like I managed to compartmentalize the film into seperate movies.